Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, January 02, 2013
The Best and Worst Stocks of 2012 / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Ben Gersten writes:
As we prepare to invest in the New Year, we can learn from the five best and worst performing stocks of 2012 in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
While any investor would have loved to know this list a year ago, it's a good guide for 2013. Several of the factors that drove these share prices up and down in 2012 haven't changed.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Urgent Fiscal Cliff Investor Actions to Take Now / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III
writes:The prospects of a "Fiscal Cliff" impasse are causing more nightmares in middle class America than Freddy Krueger did on Elm Street.But Permanent Wealth Investor Editor Martin Hutchinson has a surprisingly contrarian take on the escalating tempest.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
What Stocks Albert Einstein Would Invest in Today / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Albert Einstein wasn’t famous as an investor. He was a genius who revolutionized theoretical physics. But if he were alive today, it’s pretty clear what he would be doing with his money. And you should be doing it, too.
Friday, September 21, 2012
The Ruinous Truth About Stock Buybacks / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Every time I hear a Wall Street analyst extolling the virtues of stock buybacks I just want to scream.
"Don't fall for the flim-flam," I think to myself, "demand the cash instead!"
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
These Stocks Are Still on a Hot Streak / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Ben Gersten writes: The major headlines in the stock market today include Europe putting a stop to the QE3 rally, another negative manufacturing report and a couple of stocks continuing to soar.
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Thursday, August 09, 2012
Stocks At All-Time Highs... and It's Time to Buy / Companies / Investing 2012
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: "But Steve... Coke and Wal-Mart are at 12-month highs... I don't want to buy them at new highs!"
Why not?
What is your evidence that says they'll go down once they hit new highs? History actually says the opposite...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Four Debt Free Companies to Own Even if Markets Crash / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Many investors remain on the sidelines under the impression that every company has been stopped in its tracks by the financial crisis. Somehow they've convinced themselves there's nothing worth owning.
The problem is it's just not true. Companies that carry little or no debt are kicking butt and will continue to do so even if the markets stumble.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Four Recession-Proof Stocks Investing for 2012 and Beyond / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Despite the efforts of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his cohorts, it looks like gridlock in Congress will push us into a recession in 2013, if not sooner.
In case you haven't been paying attention, "Taxmageddon," and election-year politics have driven the economy to the edge of a "fiscal cliff." This means the start of next year, unless drastic measures are taken in Washington, is looking precarious for investors.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Five Ways Investors Not to Get "Facebooked" / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
On the heels of the Facebook IPO fiasco, many investors are wondering how they can find the next best thing and avoid getting "facebooked" in the process.
Tall order? Not really.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
IBM Proving That Value Investing Is Not A Form Of Market Timing / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Charles_Carnevale
Throughout my career, I have often come across those who believe that value investing is a form of market timing. This misconception seems to be based on the notion that since a value investor determines the price above which they are not willing to pay for a stock, that they are in effect timing the market. The fallacy in this logic is that value investors are not concerned with price, they are concerned with valuation. Therefore, I offer this article as an attempt to clarify the differences between timing the market versus behaving as a value investor.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Four Defensive Stocks for a Market Pullback: MCD, MO, CAG, JNJ / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
If you looked at just the first-quarter results you could be forgiven for thinking that everything in the stock market is rosy.
The Dow Jones Industrials and the S&P 500 turned in their best performances since 1998, rising 8.14% and 12.0%, respectively.
Meanwhile, the Nasdaq was even stronger, riding a tech-stock rally to a gain of nearly 19% - its best yearly start since 1991.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
7 Large-cap Industrial Stocks with High Growth Rates, Low Valuations and Above-average Dividend Yields / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Fast_Graphs
This article screened the industrial sector searching for companies that offer above-average forecast earnings growth of 15% to 20% or better that could be purchased at an attractive valuation. Although each of these companies pays a dividend, due to the cyclical nature of this industry we encourage the reader to carefully review the dividend history on each individual company.
The following table summarizes seven large-cap Industrials that appear to be attractively valued, and lists them in order of Estimated EPS Growth order. From left to right, the table shows the company’s stock symbol and name. Next, two valuation metrics are listed side-by-side, the current PE ratio followed by the historical normal PE ratio for perspective. The final four columns show the current dividend yield, estimated EPS Growth, debt and company sector.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Election Politics and Economic Uncertainty Means It's Boom Times for Gun Stocks / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
The gun business is booming.
Uncertainty about the upcoming election and a sluggish economy has Americans buying guns and ammo by the truck load.
In fact, business is so good they can't make enough of the stuff.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Five Undervalued Dividend Paying Retail Stocks / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Charles_Carnevale
We believe the retail sector is currently a mixed bag where some of the best names are currently too pricey to buy. Retailers such as Costco (COST), Ross Stores (ROST) and T.J. Maxx (TJX) have seen their share prices skyrocket over the last year or so. On the other hand, not all leading retailers have followed suit even when their operating results have been comparable. We have identified five well-known and even leading retailers that offer attractive valuation, good dividend yields and the opportunity for double-digit total returns over the next five years.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Worried that Stock Market is Overbought? Play Defense with Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Elliot_H_Gue
Conventional wisdom holds that consumer staples names such as food and beverage manufacturers are slow-growth stocks that hold up best when the market swoons and lag when equities rally.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
How Savvy Investors Build True Wealth / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald, writes:
Most investors think of time as an enemy, a predator that stalks them all of their lives. They never feel they have enough of it so they are constantly trying to outwit it.
Trying to beat time, they become irrational and make unpredictable, impulsive decisions to "get ahead" or hit the proverbial "home run."
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Investor Alert: Xerox is a Cash Machine / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
On the surface Xerox Corp. smells a lot like its Nifty 50 brethren, once-hotter-than-the-sun-but-now-bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. and Polaroid Corp. Its stock has gone nowhere since forever. But Xerox was not your typical overvalued blue chip of the 1990s, like Cisco Systems, Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft Corp., whose earnings have tripled or quadrupled since then — the kind of stocks I have advocated in this column. Xerox was very pricey in the late ’90s, but its revenue and earnings per share have since declined. And to make matters worse, printing and copying is just so analog, so last century. It is hard to get excited about a company making equipment whose main trick is putting ink on paper. However, all these negative optics have resulted in one misunderstood company and a very mispriced stock.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Five Cheap Stocks for an Undervalued Market: KCG, AWP, WLP, MT, CNBKA / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Last week marked the third anniversary of the bear market low, and there is compelling evidence that we still have an undervalued market - meaning investors can find cheap stocks.
Even though the S&P 500 Index has nearly doubled off its lows of March 9, 2009, it is still trading at only about 14.1 times earnings, well below its 15-year average of 20.2.
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Friday, March 02, 2012
Three Ways to Ride the Rally in Small Cap Stocks / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A recent surge in small cap stocks - companies with a market capitalization of under $1 billion - means individual investors should be placing at least a few of their chips in the small-cap arena.
In fact, the rally has pushed the Russell 2000, an index of 2,000 small cap stocks, to within shouting distance of record highs.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Whiskey and Cigarettes: The Best Way to Profit From Sin Stocks / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
The common misconception is that so-called "sin stocks" only perform well when the economy tanks.
But the truth is that purveyors of alcohol and tobacco take their lumps during a recession just like everybody else.
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